1910-1919 Dissertations (MU)
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This collection contains the dissertations submitted to the Graduate School by doctoral degree candidates at the University of Missouri in the years 1910-1919. These copies were digitized from print copies at MU Libraries.
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Item An investigation of the relation between vegetative and reproductive activity in plants(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916) Winkler, Charles Herman"It is the purpose of this investigation to study this relationship between vegetative and reproductive activity, to present evidence showing to what extent it may be influenced and modified by external conditions or cultural practices, and in so far as is possible, in the light of our present knowledge, to discuss the physiological changes involved in the response to such practices."--Text taken from page 1-2.Item The construction of sound intensity apparatus and experiments on the relative intensity of successive, simultaneous, ascending and descending tones(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916) Weiss, Albert Paul"From the impression which gradually developed during the course of the experiment it seems probable to the writer that both difference in vibration rates and the ratios of the intervals have an influence upon the judgments of the tone intensities. It is these facts mainly which led him to conclude that the intensity judgment in audition is really a mixed judgment. A tone may be judged as strong as another tone one moment, but presented again a few moments later, they will be judged of different intensity."--Text taken from page 80.Item A method of sociological investigation(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913) Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland)"It is the purpose of the author of this thesis to present, from his limited experience as a social surveyor and from a rather extended study of social surveys, the meaning and value of the survey method to the science of sociology." --Text taken from Preface.Item Some factors influencing fruitfulness in apples(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918) Wiggans, Cleo Claude"SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: Missouri apple yields tend to rotate in three year cycles, the sizes of the crops produced showing the following order: heavy, light, medium, heavy, etc. A five years' study of the behavior of individual apple fruit spurs of six commercial varieties, as contrasted with previous opinions based upon casual observation of the entire tree or entire orchard, leads to the- following conclusions: - Jonathan, Grimes and Winesap possess: the ability to develop a fairly high percentage of blooms each year, while Rome, York and Gano, produce an exceedingly high percentage of blooms one season and a very low one the next."--Text taken from page 1.Item The Chinese mind : a study in race psychology(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917) Creighton, J. W."If the Chinese men and women of like passions and abilities as ourselves, we are free to develop Chinese education on lines similar to those in the West, always being able to use the results of western progress in the solutions of the problems of the East. If, on the other hand, there are wide racial differences, it is encumbent upon educators to study these differences and evaluate them carefully as a preliminary step in the great work of education of China. Before a course of study is adopted, before a system of schools built after a foreign model is organized, it would seem wise to attack the problem at the very bottom and seek to find out all we can of the native ability of the Chinese himself. Such is the purpose of this study, and with such a purpose it seeks to contribute something toward the practical solution of some of the great problems of Chinese education."--Text taken from page 4.